Trial postponed for trio charged with shooting at Chico house

OROVILLE — A Nov. 26 trial date was vacated Tuesday for three men charged with firing a gun into a residence in Chico in November 2011.

Defense attorney Tracy Davis, representing Ryan Daniel McIntyre, filed the motion to continue the trial in Butte County Superior Court. According to the motion, Davis was still gathering information about the case and was seeking to retain an expert witness on gangs.

No parties objected and Judge Clare Keithley set a Dec. 4 hearing to select a new trial date.

McIntyre and co-defendants Ramon Arismendez and Francisco Rogelio John Ramirez were arrested on Nov. 13, 2011, for allegedly firing shots from a car into a residence on the 700 block of Humboldt Avenue before fleeing.

The house was occupied, but no one was injured in the early morning incident.

It was reportedly witnessed by two police officers on an unrelated traffic stop. The defendants also reportedly drove by two other officers who chased the fleeing vehicle, until the defendant's vehicle crashed into a fence near Humboldt Avenue and Linden Street.

All three defendants have been charged with felony count of shooting at an inhabited dwelling, with the special allegation that it was a gang-related activity.

McIntyre also faces a felony count of evading an officer with willful disregard for public safety and a misdemeanor count of driving under the influence.

Ramirez is also charged with a misdemeanor count of resisting or delaying an officer.